Prefect Kong (孔) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Prefect Kong as an administrator and official. This record brings together 1 passage from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Prefect Kong	孔
Surname	Kong	孔	Kong
Descriptive kinship	prefect Kong	府帥孔

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:069:s0136

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同光初 · Western Year: AD 923
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:069:s0136

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 69Volume 69 Book of Later Tang 45: Biographies 21: Zhang Xian, Wang Zhengyan, Hu Zhuang, Cui Yisun, Meng Hu, Sun Yue, Zhang Yanlang, Liu Yanhao, Liu Yanlang · 1 passage

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同光初，除吏部侍郎，銓選疏謬，貶官塞地，馳驛至潞州，致書於府帥孔曰：「十五年穀城山裏，自謂逸人； At the beginning of Tongguang he was made vice minister of personnel; his civil-service selection was careless and mistaken, and he was demoted to a frontier post. He rode post-horses to Luzhou and sent a letter to the prefect Kong, saying, "For fifteen years in the Gucheng mountains I called myself a recluse;